Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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